Real Transylvanians would never fight the monsters,
they'd engage them in the arena of ideas.
Or hide beneath their beds
Posted on 01/27/2006 9:46:07 PM PST by tgslTakoma
I don't assume anybody made me anything and I'm not trying to make myself anything special. For crying out loud, how can I make it clear? I'm a professor, I've been a conservative since the Reagan years (I'm 50)and I cut my teeth on social conservatism. How am I supposed to act? I see something that concerns me (I don't know you guys from Adam, so, believe me, I'm not assuming anything about you, personally. I'm just raising the possibility, in general, that one could fall in to a trap if they become addicted to street-level militancy.) So I raise questions (in a not so tactful way, again, sorry!!)
That's all I'm about. Period.
Yes I ca . . . oh, crap! :o)
Who ARE these scum-suckers, and why do they think they can do the cutesy, "bullying" stunts that they do??
Your patience amazes me. I'd have 'Black Beret' unconscious on the sidewalk and dare the bi**hes to do anything about it but pick him up and leave.
But that's me.
Real Transylvanians would never fight the monsters,
they'd engage them in the arena of ideas.
Or hide beneath their beds
Remember who guards your freedom
I want you to close your eyes and picture in your mind the soldier at Valley Forge, as he holds his musket in his bloody hands.
He stands barefoot in the snow, starved from lack of food, wounded from months of battle and emotionally scarred from the eternity away from his family surrounded by nothing but death and carnage of war.
He stands tough, with fire in his eyes and victory on his breath. He looks at us now in anger and disgust and tells us this...
I gave you a birthright of freedom born in the Constitution and now your children graduate too illiterate to read it.
I fought in the snow barefoot to give you the freedom to vote and you stay at home because it rains.
I left my family destitute to give you the freedom of speech and you remain silent on critical issues, because it might be bad for business.
I orphaned my children to give you a government to serve you and it has stolen democracy from the people.
It's the U. S. Serviceman not the reporter who gives you the freedom of the press.
It's the U.S. Serviceman not the poet who gives you the freedom of speech.
It's the U.S. Serviceman not the campus organizer who allows you to demonstrate.
It's the U.S. Serviceman who salutes the flag, serves the flag, whose coffin is draped with the flag, who made it possible for the protester to burn the flag!!!
"Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need."
Excellent.
G-D Bless Our Troops.
Pardon me just a minute...
I know all the people I've been Freeping with at WRAMC, and we all possess well-developed critical thinking skills; it's more than a wee bit insulting to have somebody without personal knowledge of the people he's talking about, to jump onto a thread and insinuate that we are so stupid that in the past ten-plus months we haven't already considered our motives WRT our WRAMC Freeps.
And it's much more than insulting to offer talk-show style psychological diagnoses based solely on the comments posted on FR.
Don't you have some papers to grade, or something?
It's admirable that you keep the left "off balance" at your university and that you are afforded the environment where you can take the high road (as you put it). The reality of it is you have to meet people where they are... not just geographically, but in their thinking as well. These Code Pink losers are in the streets. Even Jesus went among sinners in order to save them.
Back in November, after one Friday night at Walter Reed a gentleman came over who wanted to "discuss ideas". He claimed to be a pacifist. I told him that no one on the corner where he'd just been standing shared his views. He said, "But they are against the war." I told him they were against THIS war but would not be against one that would further their own agenda. I challenged him to research Code Pink, and look up where they gave money to the insurgents (he was told it was humanitarian aide). I said he should be familiar with what they stood for before standing and being associated with them. He said he would look into it and I can only guess that he did, because we have never seen him back on that corner. Even if it's one person at a time, it is possible to exchange ideas on the street but you can't do that if you don't show up.
Being clever, one step ahead, does keep them off balance as well. For some of us the primary mission is not only to support the troops, but to get Code Pink to move on. Their agenda has no business being on display in front of a military hospital. We are trying to get them to take it to Capital Hill and leave the wounded alone. With them away from the Main Gate we can better focus on our uplifting messages directly to the troops.
It is possible to find (or make) an opportunity to enchange ideas, but keep in mind, most of these people have memorized a different kind of rhetoric which they think is correct only because it's louder than our logic or because it gets on TV. Trying to communicate in a language that they can understand unfortunately leads to tactics not found on the high road. FReepers need to be flexible. Semper Gumby!
Well said!
BUMP
Yes. Well said. Thanks.
I always remember that great Billy Crystal skit on the Oscars --
"I am sooo NOT Spartacus..."
Boy, are they nuts. You'd think they'd be glad to get some attention, but I suppose for it to be the right kind of attention, you'd have to support the insurgent sub-humans over in Iraq or somthing like that.
Don't know what the carpool situation will be this Friday. If I drive myself in I'll come early enough to work on the movie unless I can talk Bill into leaving early.
Bill could help with the captions too. He's pretty good at that sort of thing.
Apple Blossom for President!
Coop for SecDef.
BufordP for Sec of Homeland Security.
Bmwcyle for Sec of Education...
With a staff like in #376, how can I go wrong?
Please it is too early in the morning for this.
You've been both wrong and rude in the same week. You may want to to the right thing and get yourself back on track.
that was DISGUSTING! He is talking about the protest warrior attacking other countries and he was totally on the attack himself. What a disgusting person.
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